Old Yutou breathed a sigh of relief, "It's done, Daping, you go and help your man into the house." ”

Da Ping responded in a trembling voice.

Lao Yutou turned on the flashlight and shone it at the door, I couldn't help but widen my eyes, there were a few footprints on the layer of ash, looking at the direction of the feet, it was from the yard out.

Lao Yutou swept the ashes and threw them into the dung pit, and told Daping: "Wash all the sets of bedding on your bed and bask in the sun." ”

Da Ping answered from the house.

Lao Yutou picked up the coffin board and walked back with me.

"Dad, do you know whose coffin board it belongs to?" I asked curiously.

He shook his head, "I don't know, I'll go back to the village and call a few people, and go to the river and Nanshan to look for it." ”

"Why Nanshan?" I asked, raising my sleeve to wipe the sweat of the old man.

"This coffin board was washed down by the flood, and many people in our village squatted on the dam and waited to catch things in the two days when it rained, if we went to the village, it wouldn't fall into the hands of your sister-in-law." He explained.

It dawned on me and gave me a thumbs up and said, "Dad, you're amazing." ”

Our village is east-west, the houses sit in the north and face south, lined up, the front and back are mountains, and the river is at the root of the south mountain, so you can only go to these two places to find.

Lao Yutou said that the coffin board could not enter the village, so he asked me to go back and call someone.

The relationship between the rural neighbors is good, and the village chief is the cousin of Lao Yutou, and I heard that he is looking for someone to help, and all the men who are okay have come out.

Lao Yutou talked about the matter, promised to give five yuan per person, and led the people up to Nanshan.

I followed quietly behind, not daring to let the old man see me, for fear that he would drive me back then.

But the more I walked, the more I felt that something was wrong, the moonlight was quite bright tonight, and I turned on the flashlight again, but I couldn't see the road clearly, one foot deep and one foot shallow, looking at the surroundings in a fog.

There was a layer of sweat in the palms of my hands, and I didn't dare to be reckless, so I shouted to the old man: "Dad, I can't see the road clearly." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, my feet slipped and I sat directly on the ground.

"Why are you still following?" Lao Yutou lowered his face, stretched out his free hand to pull me up from the ground, told the man next to me to let him pick me up, and gave me the wood that was placed on top of Daping's man during the day.

I rubbed the piece of wood, and the bottom was uneven, as if something was carved into it.

"Found it." Suddenly someone shouted.

I looked over with a flashlight, and I felt that it was pitch black in front of me, and the flashlight could not be penetrated.

"Who is so lacking in virtue that he actually picked up other people's graves." The man was angry, but also a little scared.

As I got closer, I could barely see the graveyard, which had been dug open, and the pit was full of water, and human bones could be faintly visible on the water.

I hugged the neck of the person who was holding me, my legs and stomach trembled, and I felt an inexplicable fear of this grave.

The old man asked him to go back to the coffin under the pretext of coming, and took out a red thread from his pocket, and laid it around the grave, so that we could stand outside the circle, he rolled up his trouser legs and jumped into the grave, carefully fished out the bones in the water, and put them away.

When the coffin was borrowed, he put the bones in a new coffin, dug a new grave and buried them, and lit three sticks of incense.

"No, why is there not a single coffin board in this pit?" Old Yu said suddenly, his face heavy.

As he spoke, he jumped down and fished again.

"Dad, what's wrong?" I asked, "Isn't this the end of the matter when the people are all re-buried?" Why did he jump again?

Seeing that it was not so dark ahead, I went down to the ground and no one held me anymore.

"There wasn't a single coffin board in the grave." He climbed up, frowned and thought for a long time, and said, "Burn this coffin board first, and find the rest tomorrow." ”

On the way back, I took Lao Yutou's hand and listened to him talk to the people next to him.

"I think someone deliberately dug the grave, don't go out of the village at night these days, and find a companion when you go up the mountain during the day." The old man instructed.

Those people quickly responded.